When Paramount turned Mean Girls over to the MPAA for the rating board, they tried to give the teen comedy an R rating if you can believe it. And the studio had to fight back to ensure that the intended audience for the film could actually go out and see it. “Even in the PG-13 movie we had to take a lot of things out,” Fey told Diversity in 2018. “I remember thinking, if this was a movie about a boys’ school, has your cherry popped? Don’t have to go out. “That line was replaced with the much tamer” Is your muffin buttered? “Not all of the filmmakers’ admission, however.
“The line in the sand I drew was the joke about the widely spaced vagina. The judging panel said, ‘We can’t give you a PG-13 if you don’t go over this limit.’ We ended up playing the card that the rating board was sexist because Anchorman had just come out and Ron Burgundy had an erection in one scene and that was PG-13, “Waters Vulture said.” We told them, ‘You’ me only say this because it’s a girl and she’s talking about part of her anatomy. There is no sexual context at all, and to say that it would limit an audience of girls is demeaning to all women. And they finally had to give in. “
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